After Two Sigma
- 6%Founded something5
- 19%Joined a startup16
- 17%Joined a big company15
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Two Sigma most often go to Google, Jane Street and Meta. 6% found something next. 19% go small. Median stay 3y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Two Sigma's headcount: 167 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 54 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1670.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 7947% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8853% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 10mmiddle half 2y 7m to 4y 7m
Put Two Sigma side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).
64 of 162 recorded arrivals shown, 98 more from 85 other companies29 of 87 recorded departures shown, 58 more to 53 other companies
How long people stay
8%<1y
10%1-2y
34%2-4y
41%4-7y
6%7y+
143 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
1013
1114
5015
7216
11717
14818
261419
14820
231821
593322
251023
61224
7925
3426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 203 joined, 127 left.
Caliber
86mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 167 scored99
there now 86 moved on 88. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer101
- Software Engineer Intern53
- Quantitative Software Engineer10
- Engineering Manager8
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Vice President5
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 4% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional11 people
- 43%Strong72 people
- 40%Solid66 people
- 9%Emerging15 people
- 2%Unproven3 people
167 of the 167 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 83 of the 167 people here with a read sit in them, 50%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
33%Titles that rose35 of 107 classified people
- 33%Rose35 people
- 67%Stayed level or fell72 people
107 of the 167 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first; for someone who recorded one title here and then left, it is measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 107 of the 167 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley12.6%
- MIT9.6%
- Cornell6.6%
- USC6.6%
- Stanford6.0%
- Carnegie Mellon4.8%
- NYU4.8%
- Brown4.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 167 people here with a school on file.
Of the 167 people here with a school on file, 21 list UC Berkeley, 16 list MIT and 11 list Cornell. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
34%have a public GitHub account on their profile
56 of the 167 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
83% of the people who have worked at Two Sigma and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Two Sigma
Everyone on the map
- 83%New York138 · map 33%
- 14%SF Bay Area23 · map 47%
- 4%Somewhere else6
All 167 people who worked at Two Sigma list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Two Sigma: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Two Sigma, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 167 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Two Sigma: 79 are there now and 88 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Two Sigma is Google (7 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Jane Street and Meta.
- The most common previous employer before Two Sigma is Amazon (14 people), followed by Google and Bloomberg.
- The median tenure at Two Sigma is 3y 10m (middle half 2y 7m to 4y 7m).
- Of those who moved on from Two Sigma, 6% went on to a founder title, 19% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 17% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Two Sigma is 86 on the 0 to 99 scale (167 scored).
- The most common title held at Two Sigma is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 167 people here with a school on file, 21 list UC Berkeley (12.6%), then MIT (16). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 83% of the 167 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 34% of the 167 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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